Thursday, March 18, 2010

Dangerous tablets...

News report from Times of India


Avoid these tablets they are very dangerous

§ D Cold
§ Vicks Action- 500
§ Actifed
§ Coldarin
§ Cosome
§ Nice
§ Nimulid
§ Cetrizet-D

They contain Phenyl- Propanol -Amide PPA.Which causes strokes, and these tablets are banned by FDA in U.S..

1 comments:

Jet said...

Some of the information here is incorrect. Both Vicks Action 500 and DCold have been reformulated a while back from PPA to phenylepherine (like other products around the world were reformulated). The TOI article itself was incorrect and they issued a clarification/correction a day later.

Regards,

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